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tip-off
noun as in hint, warning
Example Sentences
Yet police refrained from telling the public that they believed the plot was fake "out of an abundance of caution", as they continued to receive tip-offs about other related terror plots.
It had earlier received a tip-off from local police about a "suicidal individual who may be travelling to Washington DC from Indiana", it said.
The Hisbah official added that they sometimes get tip-offs when people are seen eating.
At the end of a long, emotional week, USC’s men’s basketball staff emerged one by one from the Galen Center tunnel just before tip-off Tuesday, relieved as ever to be back home.
After tip-off, the family sat together for a Christmas they’d never forget, Albert Sr. watching the Lakers and the Celtics, Albert Jr. watching the refs.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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